A importância da formação acadêmica em designer de moda para a profissional costureira

Abstract

This research addresses the importance of academic training in Fashion Designer for the professional seamstress. The objective is to identify the reasons why professionals who already have the craft of seamstress opted for academic training in fashion designer, as well as to analyze the main activities performed by sewing professionals, understand how the academic training contributes to this, and to know the needs of the companies in relation to the training of the fashion designer for the enrichment of the production. The research is exploratory, bibliographic of a qualitative nature. The collection of information was carried out in articles, books, websites and through a questionnaire containing open and closed questions, which were directed to eight seamstresses, who were from different positions in the clothing segment. It can be concluded that the fashion area is still new in Brazil, but sewing professionals have been playing this role for many years and higher education courses with training in fashion are about to add to this learning process. to contribute to the discussion of this work